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seeds

I'm really enjoying this mail list.  I've been reading for a few weeks now.   I'm
so glad to hear that I'm not the only one who picks seeds.  This summer I got my
sister to go back two blocks so I could pick palm tree seeds while visiting the coast.
 One of them just sprouted yesterday on top of the refrigerator!!

I've found that salvia (sage) seeds are hard to harvest.  I put them through the
tea strainer, using my fingers to force them through into a bowl.  Then I just tilt
the bowl and the seeds roll away from all the husks.

We just built a coldframe this year.  We used treated 2x12's to make a box and used
old windows as the top.  We put a deep layer of pine straw in the bottom.   I have
poppies, lupine, purple butterfly weed, agapanthus, hollyhocks, chicory, gentians,
canterbury bells, lavender and more already up.  On the nights that drop below 20
F I cover the whole thing with the trimmings of a pool solar cover.  I'm in zone
8 with very hot humid summers and I'm trying to get a good head start on some plants
that I've never been able to grow before.

Sheila
Zone 8/MS
If you've got 'em, plant 'em!!



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